Thomas Delord is a French scenographer, art director and filmmaker based in Belgium. His practice spans scenography for theatre, opera and dance, as well as film and television. Interested in building new worlds from scratch, he works across a range of media, including drawing, music, photography, 3D modelling, filming and editing. His credits include work on Thomas Vinterberg’s film Kursk, alongside numerous other film and television projects.
Anasa begins with an earthquake—not necessarily one felt beneath our feet, but one that shifts the boundary between body and environment. Bodies emerge from the sand, dry flowers push through the surface, while skin, stone, earth and sea begin to dissolve into a shared material. The dancers roll down a dune, pause beside one another, breathe, and eventually drift into the waves of the Peloponnese, where their bodies briefly become part of the seascape.
The film explores the connection between the body and natural cycles through matter, movement and dissolution. The camera comes almost within touching distance of the bodies, while movement becomes an extension of the landscape: something between floating and falling, between the inside and the outside. Anasa, which means “breath” in Greek, is built around a simple yet powerful encounter between bodies, space and the elements, reminding us that the body is not separate from its environment, but always already a part of it.